Stitch Guide: Stockinette Stripes

This stitch pattern is extremely stretchy lengthwise and has the added benefit of having no right or wrong side.  Great for scarves or baby blankets stockinette stripes is simple stitch that can give any project a little texture and interest.

Stockinette Stripe (Knit Flat and in the Round)
Any Number of Stitches
R1&2: Knit all sts
R3&4: Purl all sts

Fiber Friday

today is friday and I'm a sucker for alliteration so that could only mean fiber! This is going to be a new weekly post for Blue Betty. I had the idea yesterday with all the knitting I thought I should do a post about fiber on Etsy, so here is the first Fiber Friday post.

I decide to look for fun and interesting hand spun.

Kitchen Sink No. 6 26 yards Art Yarn

By Bugtussle

Squish-tastic - Andromeda - HandDyed HandSpun

By kittygrrlz

One Shoe--125 yardsHand dyed handspun yarn

By lollyarn

Turning, Candy Wrapper corespun handspun art yarn, 50 yards

By LushMommy

Blue Coils - Hand Spun Yarn (100 yards)

By pumpkinhaus

Grace, handspun art yarn

By Snowberrylime

Tilt a Whirl 50 yards Handspun Yarn

By knittydirtygirl

WHITE PICKET FENCE art yarn 72 yds 4.2 oz

By islandsweet

Worse theif ever

Just got back from work and the weirdest thing happened. We have knitting circles where I work and we also have art for sale and tonight we had a knitting meet up. We were all merrily knitting away or chatting and this random guy came into the shop and grabbed one of the paintings near the door. Everyone in the shop yelled in one huge voice, stopping the guy and making him have an awkward conversation with my bos about buying the painting.

It was so weird and great that we had our circle of ten knitters to help stop him.